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| Despite intimidation and violence, Valley reposes trust in Democracy | | Rural voter outclasses urban counterpart | | | Kunal Shrivatsa
JAMMU, May 1: From bad to worse, the turnout of 26 percent in Srinagar Parliamentary constituency could not even touch or cross the figure of 28 percent voting recorded in Anantnag Lok Sabha seat on April 24.
If Anantnag Parliamentary constituency registered a marginal increase of around one percent from 2009 Lok Sabha elections, the voting in Srinagar segment remained almost static in comparison to the last Lok Sabha polls-2009 wherein 25.55 percent of voters exercised their right to franchise.
The low turnout in Srinagar Lok Sabha seat is yet another blow to the efforts of mainstream political parties viz a viz the authorities, who worked hard day in and day out to improve the participation level of the Kashmiri people in the electoral process.
The trend of low voting in the last two phases of the ongoing general elections in Kashmir valley suggested that electors in this part of the country so far remained disconnected and refused to play a pro-active role in the world's biggest democracy.
But, putting aside all negativity with regard to election process i... | |
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| Fears defeat as Islamia School, IKMT candidate’s likely cut votes | | Coalition candidate for Ladakh feels ditched | | | Javaid Naikoo
SRINAGAR, May 1: Earlier nominated NC-Congress alliance candidate for Ladakh division feels betrayed as massive vote bank holders of both NC and Congress camps, Islamia School and IKMT besides BJP candidate are likely to cut votes of alliance candidate during ongoing Parliamentary elections.
A senior Congress leader of Ladakh said that earlier announced NC-Congress alliance candidate T-Sampal is feeling betrayed and fears defeat as staunch supporters of both NC and Congress which include Islamia school and Imam Khumaini Memorial Trust of Kargil District instead of supporting him fielded their own candidates
"Islamia School, IKMT are campaigning for their own candidates, B... | |
| | | | 'Maverick' Farooq predicts downfall of United Progressive Alliance well in advance | | Says no personal problem with Narendra Modi | | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, May 1: National Conference President, Dr. Farooq Abdullah seems to have read the writing on the wall and understood the fact that Congress led United Progressive Alliance is on the way of exit as far as formation of new Government at the Centre is concerned.
In a television interview recently, Dr. Abdullah said that UPA would not be able to form the next Government at the centre. He even went to the extent of saying that Rahul Gandhi may have the Prime Ministerial material in him, but as on date he is not competent and capable to lead the country.
A 'maverick' by nature, National Conference President has the habit of making statements and then retracting from th... | |
| | | | Cong worried as BJP gains ground in Ladakh | | | | ET Report
LEH, May 1: Gradually BJP is gaining ground in the cold desert and party is giving tough fight to the "strong" Congress on Ladakh Parliamentary seat-thanks to the effective campaign launched by the central leadership with the support of the state unit. The BJP, which has fielded political stalwart, Thupstan Chhewang as party candidate for Ladakh Parliamentary seat, was not expecting such a positive response from the voters of this mountainous region-which borders Pakistan on one side and China on other side.
The factions gripped Congress, which is strong force in Ladakh, finding it difficult to counter growing clout of BJP in the cold desert where the BJP was never a force to re... | |
| | | | NC should merge with Congress or vice-versa | | Made for each other | | | Rustam
JAMMU, May 1: The National Conference (NC) and the Congress are made for each other. Their ideology is almost the same. Their attitude towards the Valley and Jammu and Ladakh is the same. Their political attitude to the state itself is the same. There is no difference whatsoever. Their leadership belongs to the same sect and same ethnic group. Their stand on the BJP, NDA and Narendra Modi is the same. Their stand on Pakistan and Indian Constitution is also the same. Between 2009 and till date, they worked together; they contested elections together; and they accommodated each other as far as possible. Mustafa Kamaal's occasional statements against the Congress in general and JKPCC p... | |
| | | | Kishtwar city road a death trap, several pot holes threaten commuters lives | | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Kishtwar, May 1: The 2.5 Kilometer road stretch of Chatroo-Kishtwar-Jammu highway passing through Kishtwar town threatens the lives of thousands of commuters, particularly the school going kids with the rate of the accidents on this road increasing at an alarming pace.
In last one or two months several school going children becomes the victims of the official apathy of the General Reserve Engineering Force (GREF) responsible for maintenance of the road. The latest causality of the pot holes tragedy is 5 year old Sahil son of Ashok Kumar resident of Palmar who got injured after a motorcycle avoiding the pot hole hit him at Bus Stand Kishtwar. Injured Sahil had developed fra... | |
| | | | Govt's self employment scheme leaves Soibugh youth helpless | | | | Shakeel A Khan
BUDGAM, May 1: The government sponsored scheme to encourage self employment has landed many youth into trouble in the Soibugh area of this central Kashmir district. The affected youth are crying for help as they feel scared about their future.
The government had started a scheme in 2009 for the unemployed youth to start their self employment units. Many a youth availed the loan facility from the Soibugh branch of State bank of India to realize their dreams. But their business suffered initially on account of the disturbances during year of 2010.
This branch kept the certificates and other valuable documents as mortgage against the loan amount which was disbursed to them. T... | |
| | | | Farooq, Omar indulging in histrionics and rhetoric for votes, says Mufti | | Evolving national consensus on Kashmir | | | Neha
JAMMU, May 1: The other day, PDP patron and former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed accused NC president Farooq Abdullah and his son and party's working president Omar Abdullah of indulging in histrionics and rhetoric for votes and underlined the need to evolve a national consensus on Jammu and Kashmir. "A political will and broader national consensus is needed to address the Kashmir issue…Kashmir has suffered too much and for too long. (It should not) be turned into a slanging match for electoral gains. Instead of indulging in histrionics and rhetoric for votes, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his Union Minister father Dr Farooq Abdullah should tell the people what they have don... | |
| | | | Militant threats, civilian killings, attacks on polling stations fail to intimate voters | | Valley breaks 30 years' turnout record in Lok Sabha elections | |  Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 1: On April 13, eleven days ahead of the April 24th polling in Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency of South Kashmir, two Pakistani militants of Lashkar-e-Toiba attacked the house of the Youth National Conference leader Yawar Masoodi, the son of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court judge Justice Hasnain Masoodi at Khrew in Pampore area. Two of the Police guards were killed and their weapons looted. Minutes later, both the militants were gunned down by Army and SOG Awant... | |
| | | | PDP has an edge over NC in Srinagar LS seat | | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 1: The famous couplet of the celebrated Urdu poet Mir Taqi Mir, " Ulti hogayi sab tadbeerein kuch ne dawa ne kaam kiya" hold good for National Conference. Despite all efforts, retaining the Srinagar seat seems to be difficult for the party as the main opposition PDP has made deep inroads in all three districts of Budgam, Srinagar and Ganderbal-the fact admitted by the top brass of NC privately. What could be termed as a shock for NC this time is that even boycott has not benefitted that party at all. According to the political watchers 60 to 65 % of the polled votes in eight assembly segments of Srinagar district have gone against NC candidate Dr. Farooq.... | |
| | | | Who is CEO Pahalgam Development Authority? | | | | Saahil Suhail
PAHALGAM, May 1: Riyaz Ahmad Wani, KAS, the main accused in Multi-crore Kishtwar food scam, who remained in Police custody for more than 48 hours in October 2009, is currently the Chief Executive officer of Pahalgam Development Authority.
Wani, then Assistant Director, CA&PD Department, Anantnag was booked under FIR No 19/2009 in Police Station, Crime Branch Jammu, on 20.8.2009 after the scam was unearthed.
Earlier, Police had registered a case at Police Station Marwah under section 409/109 RPC and arrested the accused, Farooq Ahmed of Barnar Kokernag, who works as in-charge store-keeper in the area.
According to the complaint, the official had misappropriated food grains ... | |
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